He continued: “Solskjaer’s come in and albeit turned things around very quickly, but we’re still not quite sure if Solskjaer will be the manager next season and exactly what’s gonna be happening at Manchester United in the very near future.

“And until you’re sure about that, you certainly don’t close any doors.”

Hislop’s co-pundit Craig Burley disagrees, nevertheless, insisting the likes of Harry Kane and Raheem Sterling wouldn’t ‘throw the cat among the pigeons’ by making similar comments.

“Let’s take a parallel here,” he said. “What if Harry Kane, who is without doubt one of the leading strikers in the world and we know Tottenham are not gonna win the Premier League, if he pitches up at an England camp every time there’s a squad and says: ‘well, Barcelona’s round the corner or Bayern Munich.’